Arahbo's Killer Kittens
Commander / EDH
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More mana curve reduction —Sept. 3, 2017
I'm being very aggressive in reducing my mana curve. The deck hits hard and fast. It can't afford to hold on to many higher costing cards that aren't performing great.
Jeddit Ojanen of Efavara - - - >Leonin Skyhunter : Forestwalk is indeed more relevant than people realize but the 6 mana cost just proved too much. The Skyhunter is an evasive weenie that can give me early aggro.
Alms Collector - - - >Leonin Shikari : The proper way to play Alms Collector is to hold him until someone casts a big card draw spell. The deck really doesn't want to wait around for that. He often sat around in my hand. Leonin Shikari interacts with the equipment subtheme.
Soul's Majesty - - - >Greater Good : too many of my card draw spells were 5 or 6 drops. I thought about cutting Rishkar's Expertise but the free spell casting is just so good. Greater Good is one mana cheaper than Soul's Majesty and is repeatable. Sure the discarding 3 is a pain but it still offers repeatable card selection.
Eternal Witness and Aura Shards - - - >Fireshrieker and Trailblazer's Boots : E Witness and Aura Shards are certainly great cards but they don't really further the goals of the deck. My deck cares more about the pump and evasion that Fireshrieker and Trailblazer's Boots provide.
MegaMatt13 says... #3
Lycanion69, unfortunately the cloak doesn't work in here because it grants shroud. That means my cat would not be able to be targeted with either of Arahbo's abilities. Same reason Lightning Greaves isn't in here. I need to be able to target my attacking cat with Arahbo. Thanks for making the suggestion :)
nav566, Felidar Sovereign is banned in my regular playgroup for being a bit too easy of a win condition. Otherwise he'd totally be in here. As for Skullclamp...you're right that most of my creatures aren't 1/1 so I can't abuse it. However, I've found that even attaching it to any cat I plan to attack with is helpful. My opponents want to destroy the cat I attack with. Skullclamp ensures that I get card advantage if they destroy it. So while I'm not abusing Skullclamp with 1/1 tokens, I still find it nets me a decent amount of card draw for cheap.
August 31, 2017 10:29 a.m.
Lycanion69 says... #4
Whispersilk Cloak and Lightning Greaves are still worth it to protect you commander when he's on the field
Giving +3/+3 on a cat is cute but having your commander on the field and protected so he can use his other skill to basically double the cat power and giving him trample is way better and most people will target your commander to make sure it doesn't happen but hey it's your deck
August 31, 2017 11:55 a.m.
MegaMatt13 says... #5
Lycanion69, you're selling me on the usefulness of Lightning Greaves for protecting Arahbo himself. It's been added to the maybelist :)
August 31, 2017 12:34 p.m.
I think Whispersilk Cloak is good for every commander, particularly for a deck based on attacking with huge beasts... even if it shrouds your creature, attaching it to Raksha Golden Cub with a Loxodon Warhammer on it will grant you 16 damage per turn that can't be prevented. And, you can still use the field ability of Arahbo on it, since it doesn't target the cat, increasing the damage to 32. And it has lifelink. It's just an example, but the point is you can still double the equipped cat.
August 31, 2017 1:41 p.m.
By the way, you should put in Grappling Hook too, because it gives double strike, And by that increasing the benefit from Arahbo.
nav566 says... #1
Have you considered playing Felidar Sovereign? With Arahbo's eminence, it can get quite deadly, and things like Hammer of Nazahn and Swiftfoot Boots Helps keeping him alive to win the game.And by the way, I don't see much of a point in playing Skullclamp here. Your creatures don't have base power and toughness of 1/1, so it will not trigger to often.
August 31, 2017 5:19 a.m.